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Callicoma serratifolia. Saw-leaved 

 Callicoma. 



Class and Order. 



DODECANDRIA DlGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Flores aggregati. Receptaculum globosum, villosum. 

 Invol. 4-phyllum. Cat. 4-phyllus. Starn. 8 — 12. Cor. 0. 

 Germ, superum, villosum, 4-spermum. Styli 2, divaricati. 

 Stigmata acuta. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



Callicoma serratifolia. Bot. Repos. 566. Epit. Hort. Kew, 



add. Donn. Cant, a Pursh,p. 154. 

 Codia. Forst. Gen. n. SO. 

 Calycomes. Brown in Flinders's Voyage, app. p. 540. 



Descr. Stem shrubby, four feet high, with opposite 

 branches, which, when young, are covered with a rusty- 

 coloured pubescence. Leaves opposite, ovate -lanceolate, 

 narrowed towards both extremities, equally serrate, ribbed 

 with simple parallel veins, with a fine net-work in the inter- 

 stices, smooth and shining on the upper, white tomentose on 

 the under surface. Petioles pubescent, brown. Stipules two, 

 opposite, elliptical, situate between the petioles. Flowers axil- 

 lary, on peduncles longer than the petioles, collected into 

 globular heads, having an involucre of four elliptical, unequal 

 leaves. Common receptacle globular, hairy. Proper calyx 

 of four or six leaflets, oval, erect, three-nerved, petal-like, 

 white, pubescent on the outside. Corolla none. Bractes 

 between the flowers lanceolate, pubescent, nearly the size of 

 the leaflets of the calyx. Stamens in the flowers we examined 

 8—12, corresponding with the segments of the calyx : fila- 

 ments 



